THE ACCLIMATISATION CONFERENCE.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXX, Issue 3603, 16 August 1912, Page 2

THE ACCLIMATISATION CONFERENCE.

INTERESTING REMITS CONSIDERED.

[PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.J WELLINGTON, Aug. 15. At the- tenth -annual conierenco ol the New Ze,aland Acclimatisation Societies the following additional remits wore adopted:—That the Ac t be emended" to- provide that on the recommendation of the local society the Governor should be empowered to make regulations to provide (a) fpr the issuing of licenses for a limited season each year to shoot or trap opossums, tire license fee to be £2, and not to include the right to sell the opcscums or their skins: (b) for the issuing of licenses for a limited season each year to shoot or tran opossums for the purpose of selling them or their flans, such license fee to be not less than £5, and a- royalty of 6d par skin ; (c) generally to regulate the sale of opossums and their skins, and prescribing that alii fees be mud to acclimatisation societies of the district in which the licenses are issued : that fees for overseas sportsmen should be £5 each lor game and fishing licenses: that all acclimatisation societies be- urged to wage war won hawks and shags • that the Government be ur< Y ed to continue the importation c;f Atlantic salmon ; that the Government be requested to instruct the constabulary to take a greater interest in netting convictions of offenders under the Animals Protection and Fisheries Acts: that the Government lie asked to make it an offence for any person to I>C found oil a sanctuary in possession of a gun. The conference will be continued to-da-